Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MSSCM), Metropolitan College
Boston, MA
On campus
Fully online
No GMAT or GRE required
AACSB-accredited business school
Lowest stated total of the 2 Massachusetts graduate programs that state one
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Evening classes on campus or a fully online track both lead to this supply chain management master's from Boston University's Metropolitan College, at identical tuition either way. The 32-unit curriculum applies tools like time series analytics, optimization, simulation and regression to problems such as demand forecasting, and finishing Quality Management with a passing final exam earns you a Six Sigma Green Belt, with a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt open to those who add Operations and Process Analysis. Part-time students take four semesters, about 16 months, at $585 to $1,030 a unit, for a total degree cost BU puts at $26,140 to $31,480 on 2026-2027 rates. Full-time students pay $36,512 a semester and finish in two or three semesters, for a total of $74,072 or $82,387. No GRE or GMAT is required, and online courses have two starts per term in fall, spring and summer.
Suffolk's Sawyer Business School builds its MBA on 36 credit hours and lets you customize it with one of 16 concentrations, including supply chain management alongside options like business intelligence, health-sector management and marketing research. You can complete the degree full-time, part-time, or online, with the online track finishable in two years and no GMAT required for admission. The curriculum pulls from a mix of practitioners and scholars, and students take part in flash consulting projects, business simulations and an international or domestic travel seminar. Non-business undergraduates are considered for the MBA with a Concentration in Business Essentials instead. Recent graduates reported a 96% full-time employment rate within three months and a $120K median salary post-degree. Tuition for the MBA, MBA/Health and MBA/Nonprofit tracks runs $1,970 per credit hour.
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Bachelor’s · Lowell, MA · In person, Online, Hybrid
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What A Supply Chain Degree Costs In Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, stated graduate totals run from $26,140 at Boston University to $70,920 at Suffolk University.
Graduate figures are read from each school’s own program page.
Master’s Programs In Massachusetts
Master’s in supply chain management programs in Massachusetts, by total tuition
Massachusetts belongs to one regional tuition exchange. Tuition Break is open to Massachusetts residents for undergraduate and graduate study. Besides Massachusetts, two member states have 5 programs, three of them in Connecticut.
If the program you want isn’t offered in Massachusetts, an exchange can keep a campus over the border near Massachusetts’s in-state cost. Before applying, Massachusetts students should ask each school whether Tuition Break covers its degree.
Massachusetts borders New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont. Together Massachusetts’s neighbors have 17 accredited programs, 12 of them in New York, more than Massachusetts has itself.
Next door, the lowest stated graduate total is $32,700; in Massachusetts it is $26,140. Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont share a tuition exchange with Massachusetts.
Accredited supply chain programs in the states bordering Massachusetts
Note: A blank cell means that state has no program with a verified figure.
Graduate totals are read from each school’s program page; bachelor’s rates are IPEDS 2023-24, per year, for the whole school.
Studying Supply Chain Management Online In Massachusetts
Two of the five Massachusetts directory listings name an online format, so some Massachusetts students can skip the commute to an in-state school. Massachusetts’s Boston University appears in the online master’s ranking.
A Massachusetts student enrolling online elsewhere should check whether the school charges Massachusetts residents its online rate or a nonresident one, and whether Massachusetts students must spend time on campus.
In Massachusetts, purchasing managers earn the highest median of these occupations, $170,750. Logisticians in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,360, above the $82,320 national figure; Massachusetts’s lowest-paid tenth earn under $67,100 and the top tenth over $160,320.
For transportation, storage and distribution managers in Massachusetts, the occupation that includes supply chain managers, the median is $123,830, with the 10th percentile at $75,400 and the 90th at $223,700. On the procurement side, Massachusetts’s purchasing managers earn a median of $170,750 and its buyers and purchasing agents $85,970, across 12,820 jobs.
Supply chain occupations in Massachusetts: jobs and median pay
BLS publishes no separate wage for supply chain managers. They are counted inside transportation, storage and distribution managers, and every figure here is for that whole occupation. BLS publishes no separate wage for customs brokers. They are counted inside compliance officers, an occupation that spans government, finance and healthcare, so figures for the whole occupation describe far more than customs work.
Pay And The Cost Of Living In Massachusetts
At 105.8 for 2024, Massachusetts’s BEA price level sits 5.8% over the U.S. average, so Massachusetts’s $100,360 logistician median buys what $94,897 would nationally. Adjusted that way, Massachusetts ranks ninth of 51 for logistician pay.
Supply Chain Pay By Metro Area In Massachusetts
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH pays Massachusetts’s highest logistician median, $101,540, $1,180 above the Massachusetts figure. Metros crossing into New Hampshire and Rhode Island count their jobs outside Massachusetts too.
Median pay for logisticians and transportation, storage and distribution managers in Massachusetts metro areas
Note: A blank cell means BLS publishes no estimate for that metro.
Massachusetts Pay Against Its Neighbors
Massachusetts pays logisticians more than any state on its border, at $100,360. Adjusted for prices, Massachusetts comes out on top, at $94,897 in national terms.
Logistician and manager pay in Massachusetts and the states it borders
Note: Price-adjusted pay divides the median by BEA’s state price level. A blank cell means no estimate.
Where The Supply Chain Jobs Are In Massachusetts
Massachusetts’s largest by headcount: buyers and purchasing agents (12,820), then production, planning, and expediting clerks (5,650) and logisticians (5,250). Massachusetts holds 1.9% of U.S. jobs in the managers’ occupation, and Massachusetts logisticians are 2.1% of the U.S. total.
The managers’ occupation has 1.185 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts (location quotient 0.83), ranking Massachusetts 27th of 50 and below the national share. In Massachusetts, logisticians hold 1.443 jobs per 1,000 (0.89 quotient, 28th).
Compliance officers and operations research analysts are left out of this count: both occupations reach well beyond supply chain work. “The managers’ occupation” is transportation, storage and distribution managers. A location quotient of 1.0 means the occupation’s share of jobs matches the national share.
Massachusetts Logistics Industries
County Business Patterns counts 110,858 transportation and warehousing jobs at 4,526 Massachusetts employers in 2023, plus 152,588 jobs in Massachusetts’s wholesale trade. By that count Massachusetts ranks 20th of 51 for transportation and warehousing employment.
Within it, couriers and delivery is Massachusetts’s largest freight line, 21,868 jobs, followed by trucking at 21,803. Warehousing and storage employs 19,606 people at 302 Massachusetts sites, 26th among the states. The best-paid of these lines in Massachusetts is air transportation, averaging $89,377 a year per job.
Logistics and wholesale industries in Massachusetts: jobs, employers and average pay, 2023
Note: A blank cell means the Census Bureau withholds that figure to protect individual employers.
County Business Patterns 2023 (Census Bureau): employer establishments, mid-March employment and annual payroll; average pay is payroll divided by jobs. Rail is outside its scope. Shares compare with the 50 states and DC.
Supply Chain Job Growth In Massachusetts Through 2034
In Massachusetts, logisticians grow fastest: +16.6%, from 5,740 jobs in 2024 to 6,690 in 2034, per Massachusetts’s labor market office (U.S.: +16.7%). The slowest in Massachusetts is production, planning, and expediting clerks, at -1%.
Across its six core supply chain occupations, Massachusetts expects about 2,180 openings a year. Four of Massachusetts’s six are projected to outpace the U.S.
Projected employment for supply chain occupations in Massachusetts, 2024 to 2034
Long-term projections from each state’s labor market information office, published through Projections Central (mass.gov). Openings count new jobs plus workers who retire or change careers. The core occupations leave out compliance officers and operations research analysts.
Supply Chain Occupations In Massachusetts, One By One
Transportation, Storage, And Distribution Managers In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 4,310 transportation, storage and distribution managers. Their median, $123,830, puts Massachusetts eighth of 52. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $94,990 to $169,740, and the outer tenths reach $75,400 and $223,700. At 1.185 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 0.83 (27th). Massachusetts’s labor office projects +9.9% to 2034, about 390 openings a year.
Logisticians In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 5,250 logisticians. Their median, $100,360, puts Massachusetts fourth of 52. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $79,150 to $131,580, and the outer tenths reach $67,100 and $160,320. At 1.443 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 0.89 (28th). Massachusetts’s labor office projects +16.6% to 2034, about 630 openings a year.
Purchasing Managers In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 2,160 purchasing managers. Their median, $170,750, puts Massachusetts fourth of 51. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $135,340 to $215,850, and the outer tenths reach $105,500 and $266,990. At 0.594 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 1.1 (16th). Massachusetts’s labor office projects +3% to 2034, about 180 openings a year.
Buyers And Purchasing Agents In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 12,820 buyers and purchasing agents. Their median, $85,970, puts Massachusetts sixth of 52. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $66,400 to $115,230, and the outer tenths reach $49,500 and $145,890. At 3.526 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 1.12 (11th).
Operations Research Analysts In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 4,200 operations research analysts. Their median, $96,500, puts Massachusetts 17th of 48. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $80,100 to $130,330, and the outer tenths reach $71,550 and $146,000. At 1.156 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 1.66 (seventh). Massachusetts’s labor office projects +16.6% to 2034, about 380 openings a year.
Industrial Production Managers In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 4,470 industrial production managers. Their median, $148,050, puts Massachusetts third of 51. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $125,390 to $184,050, and the outer tenths reach $99,920 and $227,080. At 1.23 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 0.78 (36th). Massachusetts’s labor office projects +2.3% to 2034, about 360 openings a year.
Cargo And Freight Agents In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 820 cargo and freight agents. Their median, $58,680, puts Massachusetts 11th of 49. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $51,170 to $72,310, and the outer tenths reach $49,240 and $75,860. At 0.225 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 0.36 (44th). Massachusetts’s labor office projects +12% to 2034, about 60 openings a year.
Production, Planning, And Expediting Clerks In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 5,650 production, planning, and expediting clerks. Their median, $60,280, puts Massachusetts 21st of 52. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $49,140 to $73,330, and the outer tenths reach $41,320 and $81,380. At 1.554 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 0.62 (36th). Massachusetts’s labor office projects -1% to 2034, about 560 openings a year.
Compliance Officers In Massachusetts
Massachusetts has 13,190 compliance officers. Their median, $102,060, puts Massachusetts second of 52. The middle half of Massachusetts’s pay for this occupation runs from $78,390 to $130,230, and the outer tenths reach $63,340 and $161,920. At 3.626 jobs per 1,000 in Massachusetts, its location quotient is 1.35 (eighth). Massachusetts’s labor office projects +3% to 2034, about 900 openings a year.
Pay and percentiles from BLS OEWS (May 2025); state ranks count the states, DC and Puerto Rico with an estimate. Each occupation’s salary page carries its national, state and metro detail.
Massachusetts Freight And The Supply Chain Economy
Counting shipments that start, end or stay in Massachusetts, the Freight Analysis Framework estimates 241.2 million tons of freight worth $637.7 billion moved in 2024. That ranks Massachusetts 21st of 51 by value and 37th by weight, and 51.5% of its tonnage never leaves the state.
By value, pharmaceuticals and mixed freight lead Massachusetts’s freight. By weight, Massachusetts moves mostly natural gas and fossil products and gasoline. In Massachusetts, trucks carry 82% of the tons, pipelines 12.1%.
Massachusetts’s largest domestic trading partner is Connecticut ($46.1 billion, both directions), then New York and New Hampshire. Massachusetts exported $38.3 billion of freight, mostly to Europe, and imported $42.3 billion, mostly from Europe. The framework forecasts Massachusetts’s tonnage to grow 57.4% by 2050 and its real value 103.3%.
The five largest commodities by value in Massachusetts freight, 2024
Freight Analysis Framework 5.7.1 (BTS and FHWA): 2024 estimates in current dollars; the 2050 value forecast is in constant 2017 dollars. Trading-partner values combine freight in both directions.
Massachusetts Metro Areas With Supply Chain Programs
All four Massachusetts schools with a metro assignment sit in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area.
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (metro area): Northeastern University, Boston University, Suffolk University and University of Massachusetts Lowell.
The area crosses into NH.
Areas are Census Bureau CBSAs (July 2023), assigned by each school’s county.
Massachusetts City Guides
Massachusetts has two city pages: Boston and Providence.
Each city page lists the programs with a campus in the city itself (where there is none, the nearest in its metro, and the page says “near”), with pay for every supply chain occupation across the metro. A metro that crosses a state line is listed under each state it reaches.
Massachusetts Programs In The National Rankings
Master’s ranking: one of the 58 programs is in Massachusetts, and the best placed is Boston University at number 17.
MBA ranking: one of the 38 programs is in Massachusetts, and the best placed is Suffolk University at number 20.
How To Choose A Supply Chain Program In Massachusetts
Start with the level: Massachusetts’s five listings split into three bachelor’s and two master’s.
Compare totals, not per-credit rates. Among Massachusetts’s priced graduate programs, Boston University costs $44,780 less in total than Suffolk University.
Ask about Tuition Break before ruling out a school outside Massachusetts; Massachusetts’s residents can use it for undergraduate and graduate study.
Check the format line by line: two of Massachusetts’s five directory listings name an online option, and Boston University and Suffolk University state an online graduate format on their own page.
Match the program to where you’ll work: in Massachusetts, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH pays logisticians most, $101,540 against $100,360 statewide.
Look at demand too: in Massachusetts, logisticians grow fastest, +16.6% by 2034.
FAQ
How Many Supply Chain Management Programs Are In Massachusetts?
This directory lists five accredited supply chain programs in Massachusetts, at four schools: three bachelor’s and two master’s.
How Much Does A Supply Chain Management Degree Cost In Massachusetts?
Stated graduate totals in Massachusetts run from $26,140 at Boston University to $70,920 at Suffolk University.
What Do Supply Chain Managers Make In Massachusetts?
In Massachusetts, the occupation counting supply chain managers pays a median of $123,830 across 4,310 jobs, against $107,230 nationally.
How Much Do Logisticians Make In Massachusetts?
The logistician median in Massachusetts is $100,360, across 5,250 jobs. At Massachusetts’s price level of 105.8 (U.S. = 100), it buys what $94,897 would nationally.
Which Massachusetts Metro Area Pays Supply Chain Workers The Most?
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH has Massachusetts’s highest logistician median, $101,540. It also pays Massachusetts’s managers’ occupation the most, $128,760.
How Does Massachusetts Supply Chain Pay Compare With Neighboring States?
Massachusetts pays logisticians the most of the 6 states compared, $100,360. After adjusting for prices, Massachusetts ranks first.
How Many Logistics Jobs Are In Massachusetts?
Census County Business Patterns counts 110,858 transportation and warehousing jobs in Massachusetts for 2023, 19,606 of them in warehousing and storage. BLS counts 5,250 Massachusetts logisticians, the planners who run those flows.
Which Supply Chain Job Pays The Most In Massachusetts?
Purchasing managers earn Massachusetts’s highest supply chain median, $170,750, then industrial production managers at $148,050.
Is Supply Chain Management In Demand In Massachusetts?
Massachusetts’s labor market office expects logisticians in Massachusetts to grow 16.6% by 2034, against 16.7% nationally, and Massachusetts expects about 2,180 openings a year across Massachusetts’s six core supply chain occupations.
Can Massachusetts Residents Get A Tuition Discount At Out-Of-State Schools?
Yes. Massachusetts is in Tuition Break. Tuition Break reaches 5 accredited programs outside Massachusetts and covers undergraduate and graduate study for Massachusetts residents. Before applying, Massachusetts students should ask whether Tuition Break covers the program.
Can You Study Supply Chain Management Online In Massachusetts?
Two of the five Massachusetts programs list an online format in the accreditor’s record. Of Massachusetts’s graduate programs with verified costs, Boston University and Suffolk University state an online format.
